Case Study: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust speeds up medical image access and cuts archive costs with Wasabi

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Speeds Up Medical Image Access While Cutting Archive Costs

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust worked with Wasabi Technologies and Infratech to modernize storage for its Philips IMS digital pathology platform. The Trust needed a better way to handle very large medical images that were taking up valuable on-premises capacity, driving repeated infrastructure refreshes, and creating slow retrieval times for archived files.

Wasabi Technologies provided Hot Cloud Storage with Wasabi Direct Connect, enabling the Trust to tier older pathology images into a fast, cloud-based active archive with predictable pricing and no egress or API fees. The result was retrieval times cut from up to 14 hours to as little as 30 seconds for 1.5 GB files, zero clinician support tickets, no need for a planned 5-year hardware refresh, and up to 400 TB of archived data stored securely in the cloud.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Yusuf Mangera

Technical Architect